Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 554 690
Rank change year-on-year -61 +136 -93
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 57 149 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.086% 0.30% 0.16%
As % of the General category 0.15% 0.44% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 27 49 94
10th Percentile £65,000 £54,250 £57,500
25th Percentile - £67,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £84,288
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +0.84% +20.41%
75th Percentile £98,750 £122,500 £96,154
90th Percentile £118,750 £125,000 £109,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £85,800 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.90% +32.00% +4.00%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 37,622 33,785 45,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 56.55% 67.78% 61.34%
Number of salaries quoted 20,366 15,449 33,666
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 12 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -22 56 £70,000 -8.20% 11
England -44 56 £70,000 -17.65% 16
Work from Home +33 9 £112,500 +18.88% 6
UK excluding London -5 1 £90,000 +4.90% 9
Scotland -23 1 £90,000 -28.00% 2

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.51%) SAS
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.75%) Misys Opics
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 34 (59.65%) Azure
2 32 (56.14%) AWS
3 31 (54.39%) GCP
4 5 (8.77%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.77%) Snowflake
5 4 (7.02%) Alation
5 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.02%) Cloud Composer
5 4 (7.02%) GitHub
6 3 (5.26%) PaaS
7 2 (3.51%) Apigee
7 2 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) BGP
1 4 (7.02%) Cisco Firepower
1 4 (7.02%) Cisco ISE
1 4 (7.02%) Firewall
1 4 (7.02%) LAN
1 4 (7.02%) OSPF
1 4 (7.02%) SD-WAN
1 4 (7.02%) VoIP
1 4 (7.02%) VPN
1 4 (7.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (50.88%) Data Lake
1 29 (50.88%) Metadata
2 5 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.77%) Power BI
2 5 (8.77%) Tableau
3 4 (7.02%) BigQuery
3 4 (7.02%) DataStage
3 4 (7.02%) QlikView
4 1 (1.75%) Data Mart
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.75%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) ER Studio
1 4 (7.02%) ERwin
1 4 (7.02%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (1.75%) JUnit
General
1 45 (78.95%) Banking
2 44 (77.19%) Finance
3 28 (49.12%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (43.86%) Financial Institution
4 25 (43.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
6 8 (14.04%) Retail
7 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (52.63%) Architect
2 29 (50.88%) Data Architect
3 8 (14.04%) Senior
4 5 (8.77%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) Auditor
5 4 (7.02%) GCP Architect
5 4 (7.02%) GCP Data Architect
5 4 (7.02%) IT Auditor
5 4 (7.02%) Lead
5 4 (7.02%) Network Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Senior Auditor
5 4 (7.02%) Senior IT Auditor
5 4 (7.02%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
6 3 (5.26%) Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Java Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) 802.1X
2 3 (5.26%) .NET
3 2 (3.51%) Spring
3 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.75%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Data Centre
1 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
1 4 (7.02%) Reinsurance
2 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.75%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.75%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (54.39%) Agile
1 31 (54.39%) Data Modelling
2 30 (52.63%) Data Management
3 29 (50.88%) Data Architecture
3 29 (50.88%) Data Strategy
3 29 (50.88%) Metadata Management
3 29 (50.88%) Migration
4 25 (43.86%) Asset Management
4 25 (43.86%) Business Development
4 25 (43.86%) Commercialisation
4 25 (43.86%) Cost Management
4 25 (43.86%) Data Migration
4 25 (43.86%) Data Privacy
4 25 (43.86%) Innovative Thinking
4 25 (43.86%) Logical Data Model
4 25 (43.86%) Physical Data Model
5 11 (19.30%) Decision-Making
6 10 (17.54%) CI/CD
7 9 (15.79%) Analytics
8 8 (14.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.53%) Java
2 5 (8.77%) SQL
3 4 (7.02%) C#
4 2 (3.51%) Python
5 1 (1.75%) Go
5 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.75%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (50.88%) Azure Certification
2 25 (43.86%) AWS Certification
3 8 (14.04%) Degree
4 5 (8.77%) Master's Degree
5 4 (7.02%) CCNP
5 4 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (7.02%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) Terraform
2 4 (7.02%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 27 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.77%) Databricks
3 4 (7.02%) Cisco
3 4 (7.02%) Google
3 4 (7.02%) IBM
3 4 (7.02%) Informatica
3 4 (7.02%) Palo Alto
3 4 (7.02%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle